The trail to Salt Lake ran through Kansas northwestwardly, crossing the Big Blue River, then over the Big and Little Sandy, coming into Nebraska near the Big Sandy.
"The Adventures of Buffalo Bill"
Col. William F. Cody
All the valley- expanse of rich land is checkered with alternations of meadow and cane and cacao,-except northwestwardly, where woods billow out of sight beyond a curve.
"Two Years in the French West Indies"
Lafcadio Hearn
Tuttle's left was about one hundred yards to the right of the Corinth road, and the division line extending northwestwardly behind a clear field, Sweeney's right reached the head of a wide, deep ravine-called in some of the Confederate reports a gorge-which ravine, filled with impenetrable thickets, extended from his right far to his rear and ran into the ravine of Brier Creek.
"From Fort Henry to Corinth"
Manning Ferguson Force